Fleet Admiral Terrence Samuel Hood, 23rd Viscount Hood, OBE, KB, VC, DSC, LoH, was a British-born UNSC Navy Flag Officer, and the de facto leader of the UNSC during the First Great War. Born into a prosperous aristocratic family that could trace its ancestry back to the Napoleonic Wars, Hood joined the UNSC Navy at age twenty, after dropping out of the University of Cambridge, much to the chagrin of his father, who wanted him to pursue a career in economics. After completing basic training with distinction, Hood served aboard the UNSC Lance Held High for five years before she was destroyed at the First Battle of Harvest. Lieutenant Hood risked his life to pull ten stranded ratings out of the MAC storage room, and after the bridge was destroyed and the captain incapacitated, was the most se